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poppadoms and raita, to serve

Method

Preheat the oven to 220C/gas 7/fan 200C. Pour the oil into a large roasting tin or ovenproof dish and put in the oven for a couple of minutes to heat through. Add all the vegetables to the tin, except the beans, stirring to coat them in the hot oil. Season with salt and pepper and return to the oven for 15 minutes until beginning to brown.

While the vegetables are roasting, stir together the stock, curry paste, chilli, saffron and mustard seeds.

Mix the rice and green beans with the vegetables in the tin, then pour over the stock mixture. Lower the oven to 190C/gas 5/fan 190C. Cover the dish tightly with foil and bake for 30 minutes until the rice is tender and the liquid has been absorbed. Stir in the lemon juice and check the seasoning, then scatter over the coriander and cashew nuts. Serve with a pile of poppadums and a bowl of raita.

Recipe Tip

Making your own raita

You can buy tubs of ready-made raita, the cooling yogurt-based condiment served with Indian food, from supermarkets. Or, to make your own, simply mix half a finely chopped cucumber and half a small finely chopped red onion with 200g/8oz natural yogurt, then stir in 1 tbsp chopped mint, a little salt and a squeeze of lemon juice to taste.

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Comments, questions and tips

I cannot believe how this turned out. I followed the recipe & the vegetables weren't cooked after the 30 mins so I put it back in the oven & so far it's had a further hour & still the cauliflower & beans are not cooked!
Think it will go in the recycling! Really annoyed....
I make Silvana's Baked Spanish Risotto all done in the oven & it is perfect every time hence I thought I would give this a go.
Really disappointed.

lovebiryanibabe

17th Jun, 2017

Are you sure you were at 190 degrees Celsius (ie 375 F) rather than 190 F? No offense intended, it's not an uncommon mistake.

Carolina1955

2nd Feb, 2017

5.05

Great recipe and like others halved the quantities apart from the curry paste as we like it currified. Also added garlic and fresh ginger and some frozen mixed veg. Superb tasty recipe which made us go back for second helpings. Still have plenty left. I had to cook it for 1 hour probably because of the quantity. Give it a try you won't be disappointed.

Noah's Grandma

20th Dec, 2016

Tried this for the first time, it was really delicious. Cut down on the rice, as recommended, still loads for 4 people with plenty left over for tomorrow. I added some broccoli & peppers and used only half a chilli and a medium hot curry paste as anything too spicy gives my husband hiccoughs! I didn't pre cook the veg, just mixed everything together and popped in the oven for 1hr, came out perfectly. Served it with the red lentil and squash dhal.
Will definitely do this one again.

ZT

3rd Jul, 2016

5.05

Very spicy and went down very well. You could make a vegetable curry sauce to go with but I thought it was great on it's own.

shagofta

18th May, 2016

3.8

recipe good if all followed. instead of all ingredients i used spring onions, potatoes, added peas too, for flavour added green chilly, chilly powder, corriander powder, jeera powder, curry powder and paprika.
the taste was really good i served it with potatoe salad. the only thing was the amount of vegetable ws not enough evan though i used all the tin of green beans and whole cauli it did not go with 2 mugs of basmati rice so i would make only 1 mug. i like there to be atleast 1/3 vegetables to the rice but they were all mixed in and i could not see or find much of the veg. i did not oven cook i just stir fried the rice into the veg then added salt around the rice. wouldv been perfect if i used less rice and cooked the veg for jus 10 mins bfr adding in the rice.

djohnson99

20th Feb, 2016

Really nice biryani and very easy to make! I cooked it all for a little longer as the vegetables and rice were still a bit hard after 30mins. I made a curry sauce to go with it as I feared it might be dry, the sauce really topped the dish. Delicious!

Frances Claire

8th Dec, 2015

5.05

Delicious healthy recipe! I only used 420g of rice and replaced the curry paste with spices and it turned out great.

benry

12th Apr, 2015

Worked really well, but these are *very* generous servings. It says six but it would easily feed eight or more. I am hopeful it freezes...

rubot

8th Nov, 2014

This turned out perfectly.
I followed it pretty much to the letter with ingredients/times/amounts (bar the nuts and the saffron) and the rice cooked perfectly. Based on some comments I feared the rice wouldn't be cooked, but it was great.

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